{"id":10213,"date":"2009-04-24T07:27:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T14:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10213"},"modified":"2009-04-24T07:27:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T14:27:31","slug":"automobile-nascar-indy-car-for-patrick-nascar-would-bring-endorsements-not-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10213","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR Indy Car &#8211; For Patrick, NASCAR would bring endorsements, not wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last week the New York Times devoted considerable space to speculation on Danica Patrick&#8217;s future in the IRL. Her contract with Andretti Green is up after this season, and she seems to be seriously considering a switch to NASCAR. &#8220;One of the things I think of is the exposure level that you get in NASCAR with the ratings and viewership,&#8221; she told the paper. &#8220;Their numbers are so much larger than ours, and with that comes a bigger following, comes more popularity, comes more demand for you to endorse other products. So I think it would be an exponential sort of growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As much as she is a talented racer, Patrick is also a shrewd businesswoman, which is why I see her &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2009\/writers\/mark_beech\/04\/23\/Danica\/?eref=sircrc\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the New York Times devoted considerable space to speculation on Danica Patrick&#8217;s future in the IRL. Her contract with Andretti Green is up after this season, and she seems to be seriously considering a switch to NASCAR. &#8220;One of the things I think of is the exposure level that you get in NASCAR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10214,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10213\/revisions\/10214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}